We are no longer headed toward a smooth or linear transition. What lies ahead is volatile, uncertain, and spiky—marked by rupture rather than reform. As our current economic engines collapse, we’re witnessing a deepening inability to allocate capital toward the future. Capital is increasingly being mobilised to preserve existing assets—assets under... See more

what we need to do is rethink this sense of unfettered capitalism in an age of globalization and say, no, we still have to value community, we still have to value place, and we need to have a capitalist system that allows for enough state intervention, that helps places survive and thrive.

Material and bio-regional transformation

We are therefore stumbling, unknowingly, into a material revolution. The most forward-looking clothing companies no longer “sell” garments; they assume custodianship, inviting the wearer into a public-trust relationship with fibres that must be stewarded, not discarded.

The same logic scales to buildings,... See more

In this vein, I would describe four predominant categories of world views regarding capitalism: believers, reformers, apostates and prophets. I use religious terminology because our adherence to capitalism is a religion of sorts: the world is built on ideas, and capitalism is one dogma with an enormously outsized influence. We have broadly adhered... See more